Category Archives: Magazine

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that the tea party has reached a crossroads. The question no longer seems to be whether the tea party will have a substantial impact on American politics, but whether that impact can be sustained and what shape it will take in the future.

Audrey Jackson of AFP and Chris Braunlich of the State Board of Education state that education choice isn’t about raising one educational model above all others, nor is it about doing away with public schools. It’s about making education better.

Del. Rob Bell writes in Bearing Drift Magazine that after 10 years, “we need to stop talking and start doing – we have to actually pass these conservative measures through the state Senate and into law.”

With the 2012 General Assembly session in full swing, the contributors of Bearing Drift have outlined a legislative agenda we’d like to see Republicans in the House and Senate address over the coming years. Many of these items aren’t things that can be completed in a day, or even a in a single session. But […]

In V.O. Key’s political science primer “Southern Politics in State and Nation”, written in 1949, Key calls Virginia a “political museum piece.” When speaking of our politics, Key said that “political power has been closely held by a small group of leaders who, themselves and their predecessors, have subverted democratic institutions and deprived most Virginians […]

“I am free to acknowledge that his powers are full great, and greater than I was disposed to make them. Nor, entre nous, do I believe they would have been so great had not many of the members cast their eyes towards General Washington as President, and shaped their Ideas of the Powers to be […]